Muzikologija 2011 Issue 11, Pages: 13-24
https://doi.org/10.2298/MUZ1111013M
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Music and rhetoric in ekphonesis: The neume synemba
Martani Sandra
In the development of ekphonetic notation, three phases are recognized: the
pre-classical (9th-10th c.), the classical (11th-12th c.) and the degenerate
system. By the end of the 12th century, in some manuscripts the rules of
application of the neume pairs had already changed, so that the system during
the 13th and the 14th centuries is misinterpreted and after the 15th century
is completely forgotten. Within this framework, some Gospel lectionaries of
the 11th-12th centuries show a particular use of the neume synemba. In this
study, different combinations with the neume synemba are analysed in
connection with both the grammatical structure of the text and its meaning,
and with the liturgical time in which the pericopes were read.
Keywords: ekphonetic notation, classical system, gospel lectionary, synemba